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A CONVERSATION by Brazilian artist and activist LUIZA PRADO DE O. MARTINS and writer, historian, researcher and artist, CHANELLE ADAMS. Departing from questions about the lifecycle and duration of a work of art, Prado invites Adams into a discussion about her work exploring how colonialism created institutions and the lasting impact this has had. In solidarity both practices explore the liberatory histories of plants, seeking to address and unpack ideas of preservation, (bio)power, control and colonialism. In this invigorating interview Prado and Adams’ cover a range of conversation topics that explore the depoliticisation of climate change and the concept of “hauntology” in museum and institutional contexts. They discuss how artefacts held by colonial institutions “haunt” contemporary museological practice and scholarship, examine the sacred values of absence and silence, and offer a framework for interacting with the presences that remain in the museum through Adams’ notion of the “right to rest”.
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Dr. Luiza Prado de O. Martins is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work examines themes around fertility, reproduction, coloniality, gender, and race. She is part of the curatorial board of transmediale 2021 and an assistant professor and vice-director of the Centre for Other Worlds at the Lusófona University in Lisbon. She is a founding member of Decolonising Design. You can also find her on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Academia. She is currently based in Berlin.
Chanelle Adams is a researcher, translator, essayist, and artist currently based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her doctoral research in geography approaches questions of land, history, and healing in relationship to camphor trees in Madagascar and beyond. Chanelle was awarded a Fulbright grant for her M.A. research at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales on French colonial herbariums and natural history museums, and also holds a B.A. in Science and Technology Studies from Brown University, USA. Her site-specific ghost tours and "information ceremonies'' have taken place in Vancouver, Marseille, and Cape Town. She frequently contributes translations to Paris-based architecture magazine The Funambulist and her own writing can be found in The Drift, NPR, Danspace, as well as in various zines and small press editions. chanelleadams.info / @nellienooks